"[Television viewing] is a one-way transaction that requires the taking in of particular sensory material in a particular way, no matter what the material might be. There is, indeed, no other experience in a child's life that permits quite so much intake while demanding so little outflow."

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Source : Marie Winn (2002). “The Plug-in Drug: Television, Computers, and Family Life”, Penguin Group USA

Marie Winn

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“What is mine, even to my life, is hers I love; but the secret of my friend is not mine!”
“Plays, gentlemen, are to their authors what children are to women: they cost more pain than they give pleasure.”

Source : Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais, Eugène Labiche, Georges Courteline (pseud.) (1975). “Three popular French comedies”, Frederick Ungar
“Follow your goals and stay focused, because you really don't have much time.”
“My revolution is born out of love for my people, not out of hatred for others.”
“In the late 1980s the amount of German films was down to four or five percent of the market, and the remaining 95 percent were American. It is now 20 to 30 percent German productions.”
“I do not consecrate myself to be a missionary or a preacher. I consecrate myself to God to do His will where I am, be it in school, office, or kitchen, or wherever He may, in His wisdom, send me.”

Source : Watchman Nee (2009). “The Normal Christian Life”, p.83, CLC Publications
“The question why, at least in my life, often leads to despair. Why did this happen to me? Why didn't someone who claimed to love me treat me with respect, compassion, kindness? Etc. These questions never have answers. They are an ocean, and you'll never swim to the other side. Eventually, you'll tire and die.”
“It's vital as we postulate and work toward exploration and human settlement beyond Earth. I like to think of the possibilities of sustaining humanity's continuum, with preserved recorded history way beyond the life of our Sun.”

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